The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma : How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance /
Drawing on repeated interviews with forty-nine women newly released from prison, Leverentz explores the conflicting messages these women receive about who they are and who they should be-from prison staff, workers at halfway houses and drug treatment programs, family members, and friends. These mess...
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New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
2014.
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Table des matières:
- The mercy home and the discourse of reentry and desistance
- Introducing the women and their pathways to offending
- A year in the life : evolving perspectives on desistance and reentry
- Family dynamics in reentry and desistance
- Women's chosen relationships and their role in self-redefinition
- Education, employment, and a house of one's own: conventional markers of success.